"Reality Quake" is the first album of Phil Jackson, inspired by three science fiction stories: "The world inside" (Robert Silverberg), "Crompton Divided" (Robert Sheckley) and "Childhood's End" (Arthur C. Clarke). Jackson's music is more spacy ambient electro than prog which is not any problem for me at all ... might be a problem for most prog fans. Of course the music shows progrock influences (wide keyboard carpets) but this might not be enough to convince die hard prog fans. But if you are looking for an CD with fine melodies, highly atmospheric songs, spacy atmosphere and songs that never get hectic or annoying, then you should give Phil a chance, especially because you can easily feel that certain parts of the songs are dealing with certain chapters of different SF-stories ... you can hear it. Cool stuff !
7 points